Naresh Jain

Current

Member at Industrial Logic
Founder Vice Chairman at Agile Software Community of India

Past

Quality and Community Evangelist at Directi
Director at AgileFAQs
Organizer at AgileCoachCamp.org

Software Craftsman at ThoughtWorks
Agile Coach and Consultant at Siemens Medical Solution
Software Engineer at DSL
Intern at Kshema Technologies
Intern at Indian Space Research Organisation
Trainning Faculty at Netlogic

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Education

B.M.S College of Engg

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Naresh Jain’s Summary

As a Post-Modern Agilist, Naresh leads Industrial Logic's initiatives in Asia. From Organizational Transformation to enhanced Developer productivity, Naresh helps organizations embrace, scale and sustain essential Agile and Lean thinking.

Naresh is passionate about building a community of talented and capable software craftsman, the next generation software leaders in India. In recognition of his accomplishments, in 2007 the Agile Alliance awarded Naresh with the Gordon Pask Award for contributions to the Agile Community by establishing Agile User Groups in India and for creating the Simple Design and Testing conference.

Naresh Jain is the founder Vice-Chairman of the Agile Software Community of India (ASCI) and the organizer of the Simple Design And Testing Conference (SDTConf) & Agile Coach Camp. Naresh has help start various Agile User Groups including the Agile Philly User Group and various groups in India. Naresh is an active Open Source committer and enjoys teaching software development courses in Universities.

Naresh enjoys beer, music, adventure sports and hot food of any color. To know more about Naresh visit ...http://agilefaqs.com/nareshjain.html

Naresh Jain’s Specialties:

Software Development
Adventure Sports

Naresh Jain’s Experience

Member

Industrial Logic

(Information Technology and Services industry)

September 2009 — Present (4 months)

Naresh will be heading Industrial Logic's initiatives in Asia. His responsibilities range from in-person training & consulting to building the elearning content & platform to hiring & mentoring colleagues in India.
Founder Vice Chairman

Agile Software Community of India

(Computer Software industry)

January 2004 — Present (6 years )

Founder Vice Chairman
Quality and Community Evangelist

Directi

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2008 — September 2009 (1 year 9 months)

Naresh was responsible for defining and implementing organization wide processes and risk-reduction practices (borrowing upon Agile and other philosophies as appropriate). His other responsibilities included building and growing a sizable team, whose task is to percolate Agile practices and other Product Engineering philosophies across the myriad product engineering teams at Directi. He was also actively involved in organizing country-wide open camps, conferences, rallies, shows, contests etc for knowledge sharing and community building.
Director

AgileFAQs

(Information Technology and Services industry)

November 2007 — September 2009 (1 year 11 months)

As an independent consultant, I help software organizations deliver mission critical enterprise applications. Having played various roles of Agile coach, Quality Evangelist, Technical Lead, Product Owner, Iteration Manager, Scrum Master, Developer, QA, Recruiter, Build Master, Mentor and Trainer, I'm well equipped to help the entire organization rapidly adopt Agile methods.
Organizer

AgileCoachCamp.org

(Information Technology and Services industry)

December 2007 — July 2008 (8 months)

In collaboration with Deborah Hartmann, organized this first installment of a series of conferences for Agile software development coaches, mentors and champions. The successful event hosted over 60 passionate leaders and their myriad conversations, in the spring of 2008. http://www.agilecoachcamp.org
Software Craftsman

ThoughtWorks

(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)

January 2004 — November 2007 (3 years 11 months)

Helping teams embrace Agile
Agile Coach and Consultant

Siemens Medical Solution

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SI; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

August 2005 — June 2007 (1 year 11 months)

I worked as an Agile coach and technical lead on various teams. I was part of the team, which defined the initial roadmap for the Agile adoption program. I helped in starting seven Application Module teams. I played a critical role as an Agile coach on their Enterprise Architecture Group which provided architecture frameworks, guidance and supports to about 25 module groups and partners. The frameworks were developed using SOA as the fundamental design principle and they including Security, Persistence Framework, Enterprise Printing Subsystem, External Integration System, Web Services Framework, Eclipse RCP, etc. I helped in refining the target Enterprise Architecture and coach various teams on practices like Test Driven Development, Simple Design, Continuous Integration, Automated Acceptance & Functional Testing, Planning Game, Retrospectives, Showcases, etc.
Software Engineer

DSL

(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)

September 2002 — January 2004 (1 year 5 months)

QA and Code Monkey
Intern

Kshema Technologies

(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Computer Networking industry)

January 2002 — July 2002 (7 months)

Worked as an intern on a network packet sniffer project.
Intern

Indian Space Research Organisation

(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Defense & Space industry)

August 2001 — June 2002 (11 months)

I was working as an intern under the able guidance of Dr. Diwakar on a research project for classifying remote satellite images using neural networks. After spending about 11 months on this program, the neural network was able to achieve 43% accuracy. The tools involved were Gimp, Image Magick and GTKmm on the Linux Platform.
Trainning Faculty

Netlogic

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Professional Training & Coaching industry)

January 2000 — July 2001 (1 year 7 months)

Was teaching students C and C++ programming language

Naresh Jain’s Education

B.M.S College of Engg

Bachelor of Engineering , Information Systems , June 1988 — July 2002

Activities and Societies:

Rotract, Mountaineering club, Founder president of BMS IT Club, Bangalore Linux Users Group, Secretary of Cultural & literary board and college fest

Additional Information

Naresh Jain’s Websites:

Naresh Jain’s Interests:

Adventure Sports, Traveling, Chaos Management, Shooting and Psychedelic music

Naresh Jain’s Groups:

Founder Vice Chairman, Agile Software Community of India [ASCI] http://agileIndia.org
Organizer, Agile Coach Camp http://agilecoachcamp.org
Organizer, Simple Design and Testing conference http://sdtconf.com
Facilitator, Agile Philly User Group http://wiki.agilephilly.com
Agile Alliance Member http://agilealliance.org
Banagalore Linux Users Group - http://linux-bangalore.org/
BMS Mountainering Club
http://fitnesse.org
http://fitdecorator.sourceforge.net
http://patang.sourceforge.net
http://lattu.sourceforge.net
http://sourceforge.net/projects/protest
http://sourceforge.net/projects/profit
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dbfit